Compatable issues with MS Office/Word?

I have been using Ability Write Office for my word processing program. I can open & view a M$ Word document with no known problem. If I compose a document, when it is viewed on 'Word', the spell checker is either disabled, or it just can't see misspelled words. Ability Write's tech suuport confirms this. There were a few other 'quirks' with Ability that I wasn't really happy about, but worked around them, But a number of pluses (not M$ and smaller).

Now I am trying 'Open Office' (which I tried before many years ago) and to my surprise the same thing is happening.

Any input here?

BTW; The only M$ product I use is the O/S. Nothing else, so don't even suggest using Office.

 

You might try AbiWord. As a test, I just created a small file in it with misspelled words, saved it as a .doc file, opened it in Word 2007, and then ran Word's spell checker. It worked. And, AbiWord has it's own spell checker. Comes in portable apps version, too, so you can run it off a flash drive.

 

A document created in OO (or Ability Write) when viewed with Word, Word's spell checker doesn't find misspelled words.

(I have tried AbiWord and didn't like it.)

 

I find that Word will, indeed, find misspelled words in a file created in OO, as MarkTrent has also stated. And, like AbiWord, OO has it's own spell checker. So, I don't know what your problem is, there.

 

The spell checker in Ability Write wasn't very good, it kepted on missing words.

I only tried a couple of documents in Open Office, but they were ones orginally composed with Ability. Possibly, that is the problem. I will try a fresh document and see.

These are being e-mailed to a friend for grammar correction and suggestions etc. He is the one that is complaining about not being able to use his spell checker.